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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to analyse and understand how the Chinese people could have their lives so crushed by fear.
- Responsibility
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- Nov 07, 2020
China is completely lacking in self-awareness and as someone who has stepped outside that society, I have a responsibility to write about it as I see it.
- Books
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- Nov 07, 2020
I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine that have been published in the west, including the latest one, Beijing Coma, about a student shot in Tiananmen Square, but so far have allowed me to return.
- Finish
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is vitally important for me, both personally and for my writing, to be able to return to China freely, so being barred entry has caused me deep concern and distress.
- Chinese Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever China I'd been born into, I would probably still have become a painter - I loved sketching portraits as a child, and began art classes at the age 7. But if China hadn't been under Maoist rule, I might never have become a writer.
- Group
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my 20s, when I was a photojournalist in Beijing. I joined an underground art group and put on clandestine exhibitions of my paintings.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I finished the book, I moved to Hong Kong so that I could work undisturbed on my next novel.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
After the Tiananmen Massacre, I felt compelled not only to continue writing but to actively resist the restrictions placed on freedom of speech. I set up the publishing company in Hong Kong, with offices in Shenzhen in mainland China, and managed to publish works of fiction, philosophy, and politics by unapproved authors.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great quality of the 'Three Kingdoms' is that it seems to encapsulate and portray every facet of the Chinese personality.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue.
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Three Kingdoms' gives you a panoply of different routes; everyone can find their own path. It shows that sometimes the route to fulfilment or success is not the obvious one. You must take twists and turns to achieve a goal.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the written and spoken word is censored, the urban landscape becomes a nation's only physical link to the past.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Chinese have made a faustian pact with the government, agreeing to forsake demands for political and intellectual freedom in exchange for more material comfort. They live prosperous lives in which any expression of pain is forbidden.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that the Tibetans should have the right to control their own destinies and decide for themselves whether they want to be part of China or not. But this view isn't shared by most Chinese, or even the leaders of most Western democracies. As long as the Communist Party is in power, there is little hope for Tibet.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
I left Beijing in the late 1980s to live in Hong Kong because, having been blacklisted by the government, I couldn't publish my works on the mainland.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020